Just War

Articles

The House of Bishops Theology Committee report, "Some Observations on Just War," is well-meaning, but incomplete. It is really an attempt to reconcile core values with national security interests—different from the charge given to it by General Convention. The chosen means to do this was to...

The roots of Just War thinking are to be found, not in scripture, but in the Stoic tradition of philosophy that can be traced back in its essentials to Aristotle. The highest priority was not (as it tends to be in modern thinking) the preservation of human life, or even innocent life, at all...

Today, the United States is the only super-power on the face of the earth. With such power comes the ability to wage war unilaterally using our own country’s set of presuppositions and or priorities. Yet the United States is a country, that ostensibly is “God fearing” and “under God.” As...

Speaking to reporters during a convocation at Elon University in North Carolina, retired archbishop of Cape Town, Desmond Tutu, said that he agrees with other international church leaders--including Pope John Paul II and Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams--that the war in Iraq 'is a war...

The bishops of the Church in Wales, along with the bishop-elect of Monmouth, submitted a statement to the British House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee on January 31, in which they argue that the justifications suggested so far by the US and UK administrations in support of war...

A US-led invasion of Iraq at this time would fail to meet any of the theological tests by which war can be justified, Archbishop Michael Peers, the Canadian Anglican primate, said in a letter to church members.

The United States, Archbishop Peers says in the letter, has 'introduced a...